While I can just about overlook Cole Phelps awful characterisation in L.A. Noire, one of the things I really enjoy is driving around the virtual city of Los Angeles.
Wonderful, well written article. Reply+3

What Darkmorgado said - The minute King introduced himself into his own fiction,being the ultimate egotistical conceit, was the minute I lost all respect for his work. "Game of Thrones" now that's something I will watch... Reply0

BT recently pulled out of ROI leaving VF to take over. My speeds while exellent during the day, when no-one is on, fall away to 0.25 megs or thereabouts after 7pm and stay that way for the rest of the evening. My online gaming sucks now and there is no viable alternative. Irish BB is feckin' awful... : ( Reply0

Videogames by their nature require player choices, which is the opposite of the strategy of serious film and literature, which requires authorial control."

What Ebert fails to realise is that games too require authorial control. Even if we are given the illusion of choice, the end of the game must always be reached. Perhaps the out come may not always be the same, but we have been steered there by the creators "authorial decisions". Reply0